[af_vet_rr]

I agree with every bit of that. HIGH GROUND!

You’d think we invented a new term. I honestly detest the a.h.s that ignore the absolute must it is that we keep it.

The thing that bothers me most is that China has up and decided that space is incredibly important to them, and Obama and Congress seem unfazed by it. When the Chinese start throwing men, money, and machinery at something big, they need to be watched even closer.

Interesting quote from Teddy Roosevelt that the JPL administrator mentioned:

As it is with the individual, so it is with the nation. It is a base untruth to say that happy is the nation that has no history. Thrice happy is the nation that has a glorious history. Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.

[DoughtyOne]

I’m dog tired. I’m going to go now and respond to you in the morning. Otherwise my response will be incoherent.

Take care...